Skandapurana 16.170
Skandapurāṇa 16.170
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16.170.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi tatra mātṛgaṇānsudhīḥ ..
tatraiva baladevīṃ ca nātidūre vyavasthitām .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, the wise person should go to the host of Mothers there, / and right there to Baladevī, situated not very far away. (1)
16.170.2
śrāvaṇyāṃ śrāvaṇe māsi yastāṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..
pāyasairmadhunā vāpi divyapuṣpopahārakaiḥ .. .. 2 ..
A man who worships her on the full-moon day in the month of Śrāvaṇa / with milk-rice, honey, or offerings of heavenly flowers, (2)
16.170.3
tasya varṣaṃ mahādevi sukhaṃ gacchetsupūjitam .. 3 ..
his year passes pleasantly, highly honored, O great goddess. (3)
16.170.170
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye mātṛgaṇabaladevīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptatyuttaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ .. 170 ..
Thus ends the one hundred seventieth chapter, named ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Mātṛgaṇa and Baladevī,’ in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. (170)
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